Somehow, that's a hard concept for them.
They don't know where to point the DNS
Multiple times over the last five days, they keep changning their mind, as to what they think I'm doing.

I should have stayed with the same server. Many of the links to the site were using the previous IP address, so now those link will be lost.

And the server farm it's located on, they can't decide whether to point to the old, the new, or like last night, to nothing at all.
And it's rare that they let you talk to a real person, for what should be a 30 second conversation.

This started Friday, and it's now Wednesday.
They tell me it's a 2 to 4 hour switch over.

The server runs about $200 month, that's for a box with an operating system that's connected to the internet.

It's up to me to load it the way I want,
The forum software is bought yearly, or updated.

"They" are supposed to supply a box that keeps connected.

I'm supposed to keep the software and files organized on it.

Because of some confusion, the switch took much longer.
It's not like a light switch that gets flipped. You flip the switch, and it takes hours to see the result.
I think it got flipped a few times back and forth.

I am in total agreement about telephone ads. What a monopoly they have. They are worse than Google ads or ****. They have you bidding against each other and the guy who pays the most gets his name on top.
I have just about taken our ads down to regular line ads. I can't see paying for all that advertising when it does no good. Most of our work is word of mouth.